Word: celtics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the rafters of Boston Garden, high above the hardwood parquet floor, hang two huge green-and-white banners bearing the retired jersey numbers of Boston Celtics who are basketball immortals: Bob Cousy's No. 14, Tommy Heinsohn's No. 15, Bill Russell's No. 6. Flanking the banners are 13 championship pennants signifying N.B.A. titles in nearly half of the league's 32 seasons. It is the gallery of a dynasty, the pantheon of Celtic pride. But this year only the memories are alive. The Celtics are floundering through their worst season since 1949-50 (22 wins, 46 defeats...
...Lanier, a team player himself: "Most people, and I'm one of them, get paid by the statistics they produce. A lot of guys have inflated values of their worth." In Boston, the egos got so big that the players forced the retirement of Coach Heinsohn in midseason. Says Celtic Vice President Jeff Cohen: "The players weren't listening to Heinsohn. You can't make them listen. If a player has three years to go on his contract, you aren't going to fire him. We are in a new era now. But the question is whether the players...
Rookie Forward Cedric ("Cornbread") Maxwell had a jolting comeuppance when he joined Boston with high expectations. Says he: "Oh, man, 'Celtic pride.' I've been hearing about Celtic pride from the day I got drafted. People asking me what happened to Celtic pride. I don't know what happened to it, because I don't know what it looks like...
Endless hours of repeated intense foot tapping beat any universal workout for strengthening thighs. Serious poker players lose more sweat through their palms in one marathon encounter with financial disaster than the whole Celtic team does during a practice, and much more during a game...
...court, the Celts' management juggled the team's roster yesterday, trading forward Fred Saunders to the New Orleans Jazz and signing free agent guard Ernie DiGregorio to a ten-day contract after league commissioner Lawrence O'Brien announced that Celtic forward Kermit Washington's suspension would be lifted February...